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...name Eve Black. Sometimes the new personality appeared spontaneously. At other times the psychiatrists hypnotized Eve White, called upon Eve Black to appear, and White turned into Black. The alter ego, it developed, was fun-loving and nightclub-haunting, a smoker, drinker, dancer, leader-on of men, and daring dresser-all the things that Eve White could never...
...Trapped. Bolger has a pleasant mishmash of old favorites (The Old Soft Shoe, Window Dresser Goes to Bed) and some skittish originals stored up in his dancing pumps, and is not worried about burning up material-the perennial worry of TV comics. "I'm mostly concerned about my own personality running out," he says. "These TV shows whirl around like a revolving door. You have to watch out you don't get trapped...
...walked in my bedroom and I took off my shoes and hat. I laid the hat on top of the dresser. I came out-I had to go to the bathroom. When I came out he was standing there with a gun. He said he was gonna shoot my guts out. I started -I wanted...
...Dresser had entered the building field with Ideco, which built the nation's tallest man-made structure, a 1,572-ft. TV tower in Oklahoma City. In quick succession, Dresser took on Roots-Connersville's rotary positive blowers, and Security Engineering's rock bits and reamers. By 1948 Dresser had taken seven separate companies under its wing, increased its net sales to $108,600,000. Said Mallon: "When we buy a company, we have to consider if the company would be better off in the Dresser family. Would Dresser itself be better, not just bigger, for having...
Onward & Upward. To make sure it gains, Dresser has always done its best to let every new family member keep its individuality, run itself with its own officers, subject only to Dresser's overall direction. Says Mallon: "We hold on tenaciously to all the operating benefits that go with small-size companies, with Dresser Industries acting as a management group doing all those things where bigness is important." Proving the idea in the last seven years, Dresser found and bought four more companies-Magcobar, Lane-Wells Co., Southwestern Industrial Electronics and Guiberson Corp.-and helped them grow bigger...